Beatniks, Hippies or The Establishment?

[intensepump]

Hippies..by a huge margin

 

[garth33]

Hippie too...PEACE BROTHER!

(PS - you realize a lot of the kids here will have no idea who Dobie Gillis is)

g33

 

[slimjim]

Hippies ... a lifestyle choice of peace, love and understanding....beat that as a concept.

 

[bloop2]

I wasn't born yet.. <\3 but I do like the concept of what the hippies believe in.. but I disapprove of the whole pot smoking thing.. I don't smoke pot and I just don't love the idea of using it. =( .. I know people may not like what I said about pot.. but its just a personal belief

 

[XMan101]

You view is respected Bloop.

I've smoked it on rare occasions, but can't say I like it very much if I'm honest. it's not my thing. Don't like drugs, ok I drink beer & whisky and smoke tobacco, but that's all.

Beatniks & hippies are the same thing, one is an earlier version of the other.

I don't believe in the "drop-out" culture, it can't work , a great ideal but could never work.

 

[garth33]

You view is respected Bloop.

I've smoked it on rare occasions, but can't say I like it very much if I'm honest. it's not my thing. Don't like drugs, ok I drink beer & whisky and smoke tobacco, but that's all.

Beatniks & hippies are the same thing, one is an earlier version of the other.

I don't believe in the "drop-out" culture, it can't work , a great ideal but could never work.

disagree X...if I had to pick between alcohol, tobacco, or pot - I'd TOTALLY go with marijuana! I can only go with my own experience (with ALL 3) and here's my take as a still functioning and productive member of the world society....

--Cigarettes (that I smoked for 20 years before quitting on New Years Day '09) -- insidious, made me sickly and constantly coughed but I couldn't go without at least a pack a day until I decided I was really ready to quit and did it. (really pretty easy considering I can BREATHE now) IMO - Nicotine is a MUCH more addictive drug than THC....don't miss it at all!

--Alcohol...like pot a "fun-time" drug that lets you escape from reality, let loose and have some fun. Bad thing about booze is the wild swings into unrestrained anger. It's also extremely addictive but only to a bad end. Truthfully - I'm still fighting this demon but I've killed Cigs so I'm working on it.

--Marijuana - I've been a user since I was in HS and have to say...I lOVE SMOKING POT! The high is exactly what I look for...a fun, non-violent escape from real life. You laugh more than anything and if you believe God created everything on the earth - he must have put pot for this reason. To provide some fun for his creations but I don't want to turn this into a religious debate. The only downside I've found (beside inhaling carcinogens, which I did with countless cigarettes without ever thinking about it!) is the "munchies" - WOW you can get hungry and totally eat everything in your house. ALSO - Pot is illegal so getting really good weed is HARD and SPORADIC - the dry times SSUUUCCCKKKK!!!!

again - this is all my opinion...

PEACE buddies!
g33

 

[garth33]

PS X!
(SORRY!) - Smoking pot does not mean you want to "drop out" of life. In my job...pot has provided more incentive, energy, and creative ideas than booze or smokes X20 combined!!! (forgot to mention that in my lengthy last post)

g

 

[XMan101]

I don't associate pot with dropping out, I have known several who smoke it and a good friend does regularly. What I meant by that was the typical hippy ideal, pot or no pot.

If you enjoy something and it does nobody else any harm I see nothing wrong.

As for booze, yes I agree, with some people it turns them into something they are ashamed of when they're sober. With me I just talk more crap than usual LOL

 

[Thor]

fuck all that shit...give me Jack Kerouac, and the Beatniks lol

 

[intensepump]

Actually Beatniks and Hippies are very different, though the beginnings of the Hippies can be found in the Beatniks.

Kewl daddyeo Beatniks...were the original emos...they hung out in dark coffee houses, read poetry, and wore black clothing, only really did pot, were more likely introverts, and dug jazz, into love more than sex, high fidelity relationships, more intellectual, clean and anal-retentivish...

hey man Hippies...came out of the coffee houses into the sunny parks, dug rock, wore wild color clothing, still did pot but more into the Psychedelics, more likely to be extroverts, into sex more than love, orgies, killed off brain cells, dirty and sloppy...

The establishment sucked then and now....and it is so full of ex-hippies...how did that happen??

Shit...just realized...I'm a Beatnik mostly

 

[XMan101]

Intense, why the heck aren't you in The White House!!

You're a politician I'd vote for - then again you'd have to become British before I could

 

[intensepump]

Intense, why the heck aren't you in The White House!!

You're a politician I'd vote for - then again you'd have to become British before I could

i'm American...so actually, I'm 62.3% British (English, Welsh, Scottish, Ulster Irish) I would love to be Prime Minister...
I'm not enough of a sell out to ever be President.

 

[XMan101]

You don't have to sell out - lie until you get there, then show your true colors

 

[Thor]

Isn't that what its all about, Lie till you get there, then do what you want?

climb the mountain, than piss on it hehehe